Diplo: His Creative Journey from Making Sandwiches at Subway to Making Hits with Bieber and Beyonce
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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The Importance of a Career as a DJ
There wasn't any DJs to look up to either. Like there wasn't anybody like that's, that's something I could do. It was definitely like a, I didn't have a plan. Honestly, I was like, let me do this for now. But the idea of like reading or reading people and knowing the history of music is such a skill that it takes like years of just going to rooms and failing at parties and making yourself better and better at that. That took a lot of time. And then started DJing small parties and then moved on to the bigger parties and learned how to DJ.
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